this isn’t so much a comment on the problem with blogs, but a comment on what happens when you have access to a window into an author’s personality, and you find you don’t like what you see.

i read a few authors’ blogs. neil gaiman, warren ellis, wil wheaton, posner and becker.¹ perhaps that should read “very few,” because that’s the sum total i read regularly. (there’s a whole list of ‘em here, though, should you be curious about other authors who blog.)

some, i really like: neil gaiman, wil wheaton.
others, i read because they’re good for me: posner and becker, and, back in law school, volokh. (also not an author, except of law-school related headachiness. and it’s a group blog.)

one, i’ve decided to take off my feeds: warren ellis. i guess i’m tired of reading angry, self-involved, cooler-than-thou posts about things i don’t find that relevant. let’s face it: if i wanted to waste time with that, i’d just read the archives of baggage carousel 4.

so bye-bye, warren. i’ll probably keep reading freakangels, but maybe i’ll replace his feed with david brin.
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¹ okay, posner and becker aren’t really authors in non-scholarly sense, but they do write quite a bit. although for the purpose of this post, they really don’t count because they don’t write much about themselves, but use the blog as an extension of their scholarly thought. for all i know, they may have nothing but scholarly thoughts.